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lino nullo aut angustissiino. Stamina 3; filamenta angusta, 

 levia ; antherae lineari-oblongae, muticae, rubro-notatae. Stylus 

 nuce brevior ; rami 3 longi, rubro-maculati. ]N"ux nigra ; cellulae 

 extimae quadratae; emarcida?, albidae, persistentes, conspicue reti- 

 culata?. 



[I believe this is the same plant as Buchanan-Hamilton's in 

 Wallich h. n. 3336 E, collected at JNathpur in North Bengal ; 

 but at Kew I did not separate this species from C. balakensis.~\ 



Bengalia {Griffith, h. Kew n. 6207) ; Mudhopoor (C. B. Clarke 

 n. 7773, h. Kew ; n. 7773, 7787, h. Calcutta). 



118. C. latifolitts (Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 268) ; foliis bracteisque 

 longis, latis ; umbella composita, umbellulis corymbosim dense 

 multispicatis ; spiculis pallidis ; glumis rotundis. — Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. p. 75 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 602. 



Mauritius (Prescott, h. Calcutta). 



119. C. procerus {Bottb. Bescr. et Ic. p. 29, t. 5. fig. 3) ; 

 robusta, foliata; umbella specie simplice,radiis apice corymbosim 

 3-5-spicatis ; spiculis admodum remotis, majusculis; glumis late 

 ellipticis, obtusis, ecarinatis ; nuce cum £ parte glumae aequilonga, 

 obovoidea, triquetra. — Both, Catalecta Bot. p. 5 ; Boxb. EL Ind. 

 i. p. 203 partim (nee Boxb. Ic. ined. t. 724) ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 p. 72 ; Nees ! in Wight Contrib. p. 83 ; Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 p. 343. 



C. torosus, Rottb. Descr.etlc.jp. 40, t. 11. fig. 3; Vahl, Enum. ii. 



p. 339. 

 C. ornatus, R. Br. ! Prod. p. 217 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 112; Benth. Fl. 



Austral, vii. p. 276. 

 0. carnosus, Heyne ; Nees ! in Wight Contrib. p. 83. 

 C. Heynei, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 600. 

 C. spadiceus, Heynei non Lam. (fide Rottler in h. propr.). 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3355 A. 

 — , Rheede, Hort. Mai. xii. t. 50. 



Eadix fibrosa, non lignescens ; stolones elongati, tenuiores, 

 herbacei, e basi culmi erumpentes. Culmus solitarius, 5-8 dm. 

 longus, apice triqueter. Folia 3-5, cum culmo saepe fere aequi- 

 longa, complicata, valida, in margine fere levia. Involucri bracteae 

 3-5, usque ad 2-4 dm. longae, divaricatse. TTmbellse radii 3-7, 

 usque ad 4-15 cm. longi, apice subebracteati, 1-8-spicati ; ochreae 

 1-2 cm. longae ; umbellarum radioli 1-spicati, interdum longi- 

 usculi, basi ochreati, apice ebracteolati. Spicae 2-8 cm. lougas, 



